How Her Body Rests
4 July - 26 July 2026
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
Yolanda Mazwanaโs eighth solo exhibition How Her Body Rests continues with the artistโs visual language and negotiates with ongoing tensions around rest. The heroines, shapes and bodies coalesced in the landscapes of Yolanda Mazwana float in a haze of endless red, in a place where feeling manifests in the body. ... Figures that once found themselves contorted in postures of unease and tension, find themselves slowly softening and unfurling. Alongside, we see figures that occupy spaces of rest-in-transition as they untether themselves from discomfort and steer towards tranquillity. Is rest something inherited or learnt? Is it a journey or state of being? If Mazwanaโs 2024 solo exhibition What Her Body Does assessed the threshold between desire and โuncomfortable sensitivityโ, then How Her Body Rests responds and examines its collapse: what happens when the body surrenders to feeling and the uncertainty on the pathway towards rest."
๐๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ
Reframing Freedom: Fifty Years On
23 May - 30 June 2026
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Corner Klein and King George Streets Joubert Park, Johannesburg
A collaborative body of work commemorating the 1976 youth uprisings, it brings together younger contemporary voices from kumalo | turpin, Gallery MOMO and Stevenson, in dialogue with works from the MTN Foundation, the Constitutional Court Art Collection and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, to create an intergenerational conversation between memory and becoming, archive and imagination. Exhibition runs until end June.
Co-curated by Gaisang Sathekge and kumalo | turpin.
gender / genre
7 May - mid June
kumalo | turpin, Nine Yards, Johannesburg
Featuring Boemo Diale, Eva Lundon, Lรกura Viruly, Kylie Wentzel, Moesha Magagula, Sepideh Mehraban, Sitaara Stodel, Swaline Mkhonto, Thulile Gamedze, Yolanda Mazwana, and Ronรฉl de Jager.
Theresa-Anne Mackintosh at Wits Art Museum
9 April โ 18 July 2026
Wits Art Museum, Cnr Jorissen & Bertha Streets, Braamfontein
NOW IS NOT FOREVER marks the first comprehensive institutional survey of Mackintoshโs practice, bringing together sculpture, painting, and selected archival and studio materials to reflect more than three decades of sustained artistic production.